Best of Austin 1999

Readers' and critics' favorites

Sept. 24, 1999 Features Feature

Spike & Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1999 Critics' Table Winners

June 18, 1999 Arts Feature

Watermelon Discography, 1989-1999 (In Chronological Order)

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

SXSW 1999 Film Spotlights

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

SXSW 1999 Film Spotlights

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Spike & Mike's 1999 Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation

Jan. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jimmy Day, 1934-1999

Jan. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Where Were You When ...

Sports lover Lisa Tozzi reflects on 1999, this "underdog" of a year.

"...Consider 1999 the ultimate underdog. In the minds of many sports..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Sports Feature by Lisa Tozzi

The Year It All Went Wrong

Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.

"...It's almost dead. Thankfully. And 1999 deserves to die before it kills anything else. Even..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Origin Story of the Liberty Lunch Brand

Former venue owner Mark Pratz on Stubb’s potential re-branding

"...Liberty Lunch, an iconic Austin concert hall in operation 1975-1999. Many considered it successor to the Armadillo World Headquarters,..."

July 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

In Between Days

At the Crossroads of the 1999-2000 Austin Music Awards.

"...on its "10 Best Albums You Never Heard in 1999" list in January, but in these parts, it was..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Boys Life 3

"...indie grab bag: There's an earnest two-character coming-out drama (1999's “$30”), a bouncy Hollywood farce (1996's “Inside Out”), an..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Media Clips

The top 10 media events of 1999.

"...are 10 ways the local media made news in 1999:..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols

Not Another Teen Movie

"...Hard on the heels of the teen-movie craze of 1999 arrives this tin-eared and often mean-spirited parody, which unites..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Here We Go Yet Again

Michael Ventura revisits his "Letters at 3am" Columbine column

"...Nineteen years ago – May 28, 1999 – the Chronicle published a "Letters at 3am" column..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Chronolog Post by Michael Ventura

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton leads a stylish, meandering trip around a corrupt 1950s NYC

"...screenplay, which is an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s acclaimed 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn. Strikingly, Norton swaps Lethem’s Nineties vibe..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blair Witch

Stay out of the (noisy) woods

"...Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett’s sequel to 1999’s phenomenally successful found-footage freak-out The Blair Witch Project knows..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lady in the Van

Dame Maggie Smith is stunning in the role of the titular homeless lady

"...Alan Bennett’s comedy/drama performed on the West End in 1999, the film (also scripted by Bennett) episodically recounts the..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Liam Neeson has taken to shooting at bad guys again in this slow-burning Matthew Scudder mystery.

"...Although A Walk Among the Tombstones is set in 1999 – the Y2K bugaboo is all over the headlines..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Godzilla

These monsters have more audience appeal than their human co-stars – which is good and bad.

"...A prologue set in 1999 Japan, in which a nuclear plant manager (Cranston) tries..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Best Man Holiday

Fourteen years after the first film, this sequel finds our likable characters experiencing the pitfalls and promise of middle age.

"...close enough attention to the Roots’ track that opened 1999’s twentysomethings comedy The Best Man, you heard the whole..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rampart

Woody Harrelson reunites with the director of The Messenger to create this portrait of a very dirty cop.

"...Brown, a dirty cop in the Rampart division in 1999. Brown is an amoral scuzzball of the first order..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bangkok Dangerous

The Pang brothers' remake of their own film is all cock and no bang.

"...the siblings' own remake of their lively, riotously colorful 1999 Thai debut – a deaf-mute Patpong hit man falls..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Thumbsucker

The plot realistically mimics a teenager’s adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.

"...my soft spots for sure. Based on Walter Kirn’s 1999 novel, Thumbsucker details roughly a year in the life..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Slipping-Down Life

Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce star in this adaptation of an Anne Tyler story that was filmed in Austin several summers ago.

"...1998 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. A "slipping-down life" was beginning to sound like the..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Wedding

"...they were back lo those many years ago in 1999. (James Rogers, who directed American Pie 2, had a..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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